[ale] Mixing SATA and IDE?

Jonathan Glass jonathan.glass at ibb.gatech.edu
Thu Sep 23 16:27:42 EDT 2004


Quoting Dow_Hurst <dhurst at mindspring.com>:

> That doesn't work since there is no module to mount the drive.  I have to
> provide that.  I just wondered if mixing SATA and IDE was not going to work. 
> Dell wouldn't sell a mixed machine so when it didn't have the module needed
> then I wondered.  Just checking before I go to the trouble.
> Dow


I must be misunderstanding your problem.  You have a machine w/SATA and IDE, 
running RHEL3 on the SATA drives.  The kernel doesn't require any special 
drivers/modules for the EIDE drives..only for the SATA ones.

Have you tried this yet?
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